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Grief Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Mad people all live a long time – you know, every grief has its good side.”

Ivan Turgenev

Madness, Grief, Irony, Life, Endurance

2. “I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.”

Ivan Turgenev

Grief, Nature, Reflection, Loss, Emotion

3. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Innocence, Grief, Mortality, Childhood

4. “When true hearts lie wither’d And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?”

Charles Lamb

Love, Loss, Loneliness, Grief, Devotion

5. “The tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.”

Charles Lamb

Grief, Remembrance, Sorrow, Emotion, Loss

6. “No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.”

Margaret Fuller

Temple, Grief, Solace, Spirituality, Emotions

7. “There are in woman’s eyes two sorts of tears, – the one of grief, the other of deceit.”

Pythagoras

Tears, Emotions, Grief, Deception, Perception

8. “Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Plutarch

Grief, Loss, Selfishness, Wisdom, Honor

9. “Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.”

Plutarch

Grief, Emotion, Balance, Life, Wisdom

10. “When a man’s eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

Plutarch

Grief, Sorrow, Affliction, Friends, Suffering

11. “Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.”

Plutarch

Grief, Pain, Healing, Time, Patience

12. “Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.”

Plutarch

Grief, Anger, Sorrow, Emotion, Metaphor

13. “Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”

Leonard Cohen

Suffering, Awareness, Age, Grief, Resilience

14. “Ah, grief makes us precise!”

Leonard Cohen

Grief, Precision, Emotion, Experience, Wisdom

15. “Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.”

Anton Chekhov

Happiness, Grief, Life, Support, Connection

16. “He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”

Chanakya

Attachment, Family, Grief, Happiness, Wisdom

17. “Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.”

Chanakya

Wisdom, Foolishness, Grief, Association, Consequences

18. “A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter, like a blazing fire, consumes his parents in grief for life.”

Chanakya

Wisdom, Family, Grief, Foolishness, Parenthood

19. “If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.”

Tara Brach

Grief, Acceptance, Love, Impermanence, Healing

20. “Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

Seneca

Grief, Sorrow, Healing, Emotion, Time

21. “Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.”

Seneca

Grief, Emotion, Sympathy, Time, Perception

22. “The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”

Seneca

Grief, Solitude, Emotion, Expression, Suffering

23. “It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”

Seneca

Grief, Strength, Healing, Acceptance, Wisdom

24. “When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.”

Emile Zola

Sorrow, Pain, Grief, Loss, Emotion

25. “Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear – don’t fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you’ve come to now.”

Sophocles

Children, Sisters, Bear, Grief, Fate